The Foreign Ministry in Bucharest is firmly condemning the latest irresponsible attack of the Russian troops, after two drones with explosive payloads have violated Romania\u2019s airspace and crushed on its territory close to the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Moscow\u2019s charge D\u2019affairs in Bucharest has been immediately summoned to the Foreign Ministry and has been briefed on the vehement condemnation of the repeated violation of Romania\u2019s airspace by unmanned flying devices operated by the Russian military forces, which represent a blatant violation of the international law by a permanent member of the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the Romanian Foreign Ministry has underlined that these illegal and irresponsible attacks must stop, and that Romania has the right to take the response measures implied. These actions are an inseparable part of Russia\u2019s illegal and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, which has been carried on for almost three years and which has been causing security risks in the entire Black Sea region and the Eastern Flank of the North Atlantic Alliance, the aforementioned Ministry says.<\/p>\n
Four jet fighters took off from the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase on Wednesday night after several targets had been detected in Ukraine\u2019s airspace close to Romania and a potential impact zone on the national territory close to the city of Galati, in eastern Romania, had been announced.<\/p>\n
In Romania a team of experts of the Romanian Defence and Interior Ministries on Thursday carried out a series of investigations close to the Romanian-Ukrainian border, where debris from the drone\u2019s impact had been discovered.<\/p>\n
The investigation revealed that both drones had explosive payloads, which were destroyed in the impact. The two sites are outside the inhabited areas and no infrastructure elements have been affected, Defence Ministry sources have announced.<\/p>\n
Authorities in the neighbouring ex-soviet, Romanian-speaking, Republic of Moldova have also announced that two Russian drones violated the country\u2019s airspace and exploded on the ground on Wednesday night, during a massive Russian attack against the port of Reni, in Ukraine. The two drones fell outside the inhabited areas. The two sites have been isolated and there is no threat to citizens presently, the country\u2019s president, Maia Sandu, wrote on Facebook. In her post, she underlined that Russian drones and bombs are falling and exploding on Moldovan soil as the country lacks the necessary defence capabilities.<\/p>\n
The North Atlantic Alliance is close to the Republic of Moldova against the Kremlin\u2019s destabilizing actions and terrorist acts, NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, said at the end of the Thursday\u2019s meeting of the NATO defence ministers in Brussels. According to him, Moscow\u2019s actions in the Republic of Moldova are quote a \u2018campaign of destabilization and, at times, state-sponsored terrorism aimed at your country\u2019.<\/p>\n
The aforementioned meeting came shortly after the US president Donald Trump announced he had commenced talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on putting an end to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
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